Mimi and Eunice – Over-reacting
Transcript
- Box 1: Sometimes you over-dramatize to get your way
- Box 2: What a hurtful thing to say! Like a stab in the heart!
- Box 3: I may as well die!
- Box 3: Sorry.
Vocabulary
- over-dramatize
- over = too much
- to dramatize (v.) /ˈdræmətaɪz/ to make something seem more exciting or surprising than it is.
- Get your way (expression) If you manage to get your way, you manage to make things go the way you wanted them to go.
- hurtful (adj.) /ˈhɜrt·fəl/ something that will make you feel upset
- I may as well + verb (expression) = it would be the same for me to + verb
- a stab (n.) /stæb/ the act of pushing a knife into someone (verb: to stab)
Context
- What is funny in this comic is that after being criticized that she always get her way (box 1), Mimi does exactly that (= she over-dramatizes) and then the criticism goes back to Eunice who made the remark in the first place, making Eunice feel forced to apologized for what was said in the first place.
